How are you? Who are you?

How are you?

Good? Great? Could be better?

How much of your answer is relevant to your mood, state and thoughts right now?

A typical question asked 100s of times a day. How often do you truly, genuinely consider how you are?

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Jenn Shallvey
Apologising for being sorry

Do you apologise a lot? You are probably not aware of whether you do or not. Consider a normal day or week. Try and recall how many times you said “I’m sorry”. If not able to recall, then maybe take a day and observe yourself.

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Jenn Shallvey
Be who you are not who others are trying to persuade you to be

You are an expert. Yes an expert. You are an expert in being you. All your life you repeatedly test out ways of being you and discovering what works and does not work. Life is like a big experiment. There is a hypothesis, a test of sort and then learning. After each test there is an adjustment, tweaking or variation of a variable. Off you go to try again.

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Jenn Shallvey
Others teach us inclusive love and acceptance

I ran into a beautiful person I know. This person reminded me so much of the way we choose our life, the gift we give to people and the opportunity we have by living. I met this person at an event and had not seen this person for at least two years. I knew that this person had health issues-that this

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Jenn Shallvey
Change is inevitable so what are you going to do about it?

Change is inevitable.  This is my assumption for this post.  Because change is inevitable we all go through it. All you have to do is look at history and see that nothing stays the same.  Nature doesn’t stay the same. Nothing is constant. The world around us always evolves and changes. Everything is moving at some level. Even your body is not the same as it was one second ago. Nothing is the same now compared to before, there just might be different paces of change.

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Change in me is a familiar companion unknown to others

Announcements are made daily in the news about decisions that create change for others. For example, a new freeway, the restructuring of a company, a merger or even the launch of a new product. For most people on the receiving end of this news there will be no lead up, no forewarning. Instead there will be the sudden realisation and even shock that what they knew before is no longer going to be the same.

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